Am I the only on translating my Linux admin skills to windows?

For the record I absolutely dislike windows. It is a pain in my ass.

However, I've found it useful to use cygwin on windows for automation and it even can be paired with ssh for better usablity. I also have replaced all windows servers with Debian running samba AD.

The only thing preventing me from implementing Linux desktops is all that annoying proprietary windows software which I'm told can't be replaced.